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*Dick Meyer types it: The Gingrichites were weirdos
Well, well, well. Having spent some amount of bandwidth slamming those oh-so-deserving, lick-face lapdogs in the mainstream media it is only fair that those worthy of credit be heralded. I type this with an asterisk though as the author of the following, Dick Meyer, freely admits he was far too late to the parade--12 years in fact.
Yes, beware of so many of the morality preachers. Specifically, beware of THEIR morality. The inducements they sucker the gullible with range from miracle annointed prayer cloths to railing against what consenting adults do of their own volition. Ask them to shine an illuminating light on their personal behavior and, especially, their personal bank accounts and you'll hear grand insistent statements on the need for a degree of their privacy. Note that: privacy for them, not others. The politicians are the worst, worse than the religious frauds, as these perverse abominations willingly divide and destroy this country for their personal benefit.
Good Riddance To The GingrichitesTo read the rest, go here.
Dick Meyer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2006
editorial director of CBSNews.com
This is a story I should have written 12 years ago when the "Contract with America" Republicans captured the House in 1994. I apologize.
Really, it's just a simple thesis: The men who ran the Republican Party in the House of Representatives for the past 12 years were a group of weirdos. Together, they comprised one of the oddest legislative power cliques in our history. And for 12 years, the media didn't call a duck a duck, because that's not something we're supposed to do.
I'm not talking about the policies of the Contract for America crowd, but the character. I'm confident that 99 percent of the population if they could see these politicians up close, if they watched their speeches and looked at their biographies would agree, no matter what their politics or predilections.
I'm confident that if historians ever spend the time on it, they'll confirm my thesis. Same with forensic psychiatrists. I have discussed this with scores of politicians, staffers, consultants and reporters since 1994 and have found few dissenters...
...The iconic figures of this era were Newt Gingrich, Richard Armey and Tom Delay. They were zealous advocates of free markets, low taxes and the pursuit of wealth; they were hawks and often bellicose; they were brutal critics of big government.
Yet none of these guys had success in capitalism. None made any real money before coming to Congress. None of them spent a day in uniform. And they all spent the bulk of their adult careers getting paychecks from the big government they claimed to despise. Two resigned in disgrace...
...More than the others, Newton Leroy Gingrich lived out a very special hypocrisy. In addition to the above biographical dissonance, Gingrich was one of the most sharp-tongued, articulate and persuasive attack dogs in modern politics. His favorite target was the supposed immorality and corruption of the Democratic Party. With soaring rhetoric, he condemned his opponents as anti-American and dangerous to our country's family values "grotesque" was a favorite word.
Yet this was a man who was divorced twice the first time when his wife was hospitalized for cancer treatment, the second time after an affair was revealed.
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